Friday, January 5, 2024
“The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts” (Psalm 10:4 KJV).
Dear brethren, only by God’s grace, “333 Words of Grace” has marked its 4600th daily grace study!
Insanity was once defined as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. This description accurately portrays our world. Mankind is facing so many difficulties he has neither hope nor prayer of ever overcoming them on his own. He can neither hope nor pray he will solve his perplexing problems by himself—which problems are growing in complexity with the passage of time. If mankind is to survive the mess he has created, he must seek some outside source of power, some foreign intellect.
Today’s Scripture is also an excellent commentary on human affairs throughout the centuries, including our present: “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.” This verse aptly fits mankind in his fallen nature—one leaning away from submission to his Creator and inclining toward sin (autonomy, independence). Man is too proud to approach God for solutions (see Genesis 3:7-13)!
For just over 4,600 days now, we have humbly gathered around the King James Bible rightly divided, endeavoring to know more than we did the day before, the year before, the decade before. Our goal is not to prove others wrong, or show we know more than they do. Instead, we are on a journey to renew our mind, to take out the “trash thoughts” and replace them with valuable information—to learn how the LORD God has created our life to function. There is no doubt about it, Satan’s evil world system has originated many distractions to keep our focus off that which is of eternal value. We must not be swayed!
In short (as it was so eloquently stated), “The Lord Jesus Christ gave His life for us at Calvary, so He could then give His life to us when we trust Him, so He could then live His life through us on a daily basis when we walk by faith in an intelligent understanding of God’s grace to us in Him.” We need to keep growing in this, so now we aim for devotional #4700!
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